Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage young people to participate in a variety of sports; and what steps she is taking to ensure that opportunities are accessible to low income families.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Sporting Future sets out how government will get more children from all backgrounds engaging in the sport and physical activity that interests and benefits them. Actions include lowering Sport England's remit down to 5+ to ensure that more young people are taking part in community sport, continued funding of both the School Games and the PE and Sport Primary Premium, and work to ensure that all children are able to swim and learn to ride a bike.
As part of their strategy, Towards an Active Nation, Sport England will invest £40 million into creating new opportunities for families with children to get active and play sport together. Sporting Future sets out that future funding and work should focus on those who currently tend not to take part in sport, including those from lower socio-economic groups. Sport England will prioritise work and funding to get more people from low income families engaged in sport and physical activity.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been spent in each region and constituent part of the UK in each year as part of the Olympic legacy.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The National Audit Office (NAO) in their report ‘Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Progress Report December 2011’ estimated that a total of £826m had been allocated to 18 Olympic and Paralympic legacy projects - it is not possible to break this funding down by nation/region or year within that period. An independent consortium led by Grant Thornton then carried out a meta-evaluation of the London 2012 Games’ impact and legacy for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the final report of which was published in July 2013. This report contained estimates of the economic impacts of the Games from 2004-2020, at 2009 prices, broken down by nation and region, which suggested the Gross Value Added benefits will be between £28-41bn (the relevant material is at pages 3-8 of Report 5: Post-Games evaluation – economic evidence base).
Since the NAO report was published a number of additional legacy projects have been initiated, the details of which are provided below:
· Primary PE and school sport premium – all state-funded primary schools in England have started to benefit from this premium, which is worth over £150m per year from September 2013 for three years
· Join In – independent charity funded by the Cabinet Office’s Office for Civil Society to increase volunteering in community sport, build a Join In Local Leaders network and encourage the Olympic and Paralympic legacy of volunteering, at a cost of £6.2m up to the end of 2014/15. Join In activities funded by the Cabinet Office have taken place across England
· The Big Lottery Fund has allocated £52m to projects aimed at securing a lasting community legacy to the Games. Within this funding the Fund set up Spirit of 2012 (Spirit) with an endowment of £47m. Spirit’s aim is to leave a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Games across the UK, and so is working across all of the nations and regions. To date Spirit has committed £11m to projects across the UK (since November 2013).
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was invested in each region or constituent part of the UK as a result of London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Figures representing the net gross value added by London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, broken down by UK region, are available in the Post-Games Evaluation of the “Meta-Evaluation of the Impacts and Legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games”, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published in July 2013. Data disaggregating the impact by public sector spending, spending by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), and other sources can be found in “Report 5: Post Games evaluation – economic evidence base”.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the sports participation figures in each sport in each region and constituent part of the UK were in the (a) two years before and (b) two years after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
DCMS is not responsible for, and does not collect data on, sports participation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The data in the table is from Sport England’s Active People Survey which measures the number of people regularly taking part in sport in England.
Further analysis of the data, including a breakdown by sport, can be found here: http://activepeople.sportengland.org/
England | East | East Midlands | London | North West | West Midlands | Yorkshire | South East | North East | South West | |
2010/11 (APS5) | 14,758,900 (34.8%) | 1,644,100 (34.7%) | 1,227,400 (33.5%) | 2,228,000 (35.4%) | 1,986,000 (35.2%) | 1,440,000 (32.7%) | 1,496,400 (34.6%) | 2,470,600 (35.7%) | 715,000 (33.3%) | 1,551,500 (35.7%) |
2011/12 (APS6) | 15,512,500 (36.0%) | 1,709,000 (36.0%) | 1,304,200 (35.3%) | 2,398,000 (36.5%) | 2,066,500 (36.1%) | 1,511,200 (33.5%) | 1,557,100 (36.3%) | 2,622,300 (37.4%) | 759,800 (35.6%) | 1,584,400 (36.2%) |
2012/13 (APS7) | 15,462,600 (35.7%) | 1,678,700 (35.1%) | 1,263,100 (33.9%) | 2,466,200 (37.2%) | 2,055,800 (35.8%) | 1,512,400 (33.3%) | 1,560,200 (36.2%) | 2,609,200 (37.0%) | 742,20 (34.7%) | 1,574,800 (35.8%) |
2013/14 (APS8 Q2) | 15,643,000 (35.5%) | 1,716,600 (35.3%) | 1,295,600 (34.2%) | 2,497,800 (36.7%) | 2,050,600 (35.3%) | 1,516,000 (33.0%) | 1,535,200 (35.1%) | 2,646,300 (36.9%) | 745,900 (34.4%) | 1,639,100 (36.7%) |